Is legal work too complex to be performed by machines? Should we fear the introduction of the ‘robot lawyer’? The nature of the law and the way legal services are delivered is changing, hastened of course by the Internet. Sites like LegalZoom are perhaps one of the best known legal brands in the United States
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Proskauer – On May 26, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that friends’ gifts of wine, steak dinners, and other luxury items can constitute the types of personal benefit needed to establish a breach of duty in connection with a prosecution for insider trading. The court’s May 26, 2016 decision in
The massive damages awarded against Gawker in the Hulk Hogan lawsuit, funded by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, has lead to suggestions that Thiel is out to kill gossip site Gawker. In fact, it’s more than a suggestion . . And now Gawker owner Nick Denton has written an open letter to Thiel dealing with Thiel’s new
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“El Chapo” the infamous drug lord is battling more than just extradition to the US, he’s also got his own lawyers battling one another. Having a legal team in-fighting is not the most helpful characteristic of a successful legal defense of any kind, but Joaquin Guzman has had two of his attorneys file an appeal
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How “super” are the ‘Super Lawyers’? How ‘rising’ are the legal stars? And are the “best lawyers” really best? These are issues that arise as as result of the plethora of awards and lists compiled by the legal media that have prompted a New Jersey committee charged with the responsibility of considering ethical advertising to
Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel financed the Hulk Hogan lawsuit against Gawker, along with other lawsuits against the gossip site. Many have asked ‘Why?’ Thiel, a former lawyer and Supreme Court clerk who went on to make billions as co-founder of PayPal among other ventures, said he regarded his financing of lawsuits against the scandal
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Cravath partner and Leader of the Firm’s International Practice Mark I. Greene was featured as a “Dealmaker of the Year” in the April issue of The American Lawyer. Mark is one of 10 lawyers in the country selected by the publication for their work on last year’s most innovative and interesting corporate transactions. The feature article highlighted
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LeClair Ryan – The mayor of San Francisco recently signed the Paid Parental Leave Ordinance, a law that gives workers in the city the most generous parental leave benefits in the country. Covered employees will have the right to take up to six weeks of paid leave to bond with a newborn child, newly adopted
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Attorney Jeffrey Greenberg, a Tuscon lawyer, has pleaded guilty in a $33-million real estate scheme in California that a federal prosecutor described as “extraordinary fraud.” Greenberg, 66, and Courtland Gettel, 42, of Coronado, California, pleaded guilty May 17 to charges of conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of
Cloud computing has become commonplace for businesses, but lawyers remain reluctant to make the move to the cloud, according to a report from Jeff Chandler in Law Technology Today. Jeff Chandler is President of American Technology Services and reports that the cloud migration “end-user spending” is expected to exceed $180 billion by the
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